Media & Entertainment: Transactional: Mainly Talent

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As a leader in entertainment law, Manatt boasts some of the industry’s most respected, renowned and sought-after advisors across music, film, television, digital media and other burgeoning entertainment sectors, including podcasts, gaming and esports.

Manatt advises some of the nation’s most well-known and fastest-growing entertainment companies through high-profile M&A transactions; film, television and media financings; distribution deals; and other transformative transactions. The Firm’s talent-side practice has helped promote and protect its clients’ interests and drive highly negotiated, boundary-pushing deals. Manatt represents some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including luminaries such as the Eagles, Migos, Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, Paul Anka, Neil Young, Diplo, ODESZA, Major Lazer, Steve Perry, John Lee Hooker, Jackson Browne and Tracy Chapman.

Each year, the Firm represents major lenders in hundreds of millions of dollars in film and television financings, and it has negotiated more than two billion dollars in catalog sales in the past year alone. Additionally, Manatt has been at the forefront of the growing non-fungible token (NFT) space, working alongside its Fintech practice to drive numerous deals and advise on associated intellectual property implications for a variety of clients.